Won't sugarcoat it: This has been the shittiest start to any presidency in my lifetime. And I’ve lived through Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush. But there are heroes among us, and Bishop Budde is a shining example. There will be others. And some of them will be in this wonderful community.
Kamala Harris ran an extraordinary campaign in an unimaginably brief time period with monumental pressure. I have no plan to dwell on the question of what she did wrong. What I will linger and fret over is how so many Americans thought this person of intellect, experience and compassion was the inferior option to the deeply unfit Donald Trump.